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12 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
For liberals angry Trump is wrestling control away from Pentagon officials to end the 19-year-old war in Afghanistan:

Don't worry: Biden, Ben Rhodes & Susan Rice will quickly find new wars, ensuring the beautiful rainbow diversity of the Raytheon & Boeing boards still thrive.
"Trump promised those troops would be home by the holiday. But while the White House pushed hard on the Pentagon to fulfill that wish, DoD leaders resisted, saying instead any withdrawal needed to be "conditions-based.'"

Guess which side liberals are on:

vox.com/21560260/trump…
It's outrageous that Trump is trying to control foreign policy instead of relinquishing power to the permanent clatch of Pentagon warmongers, General Dynamics lobbyists, and CIA operatives, say the people who insist that only conspiratorial crazies believe there's a Deep State.
For those asking why Trump didn't withdraw troops from Afghanistan before now: try reading the news.

In July, pro-war Dems on the House Armed Services Committee joined with Liz Cheney & friends to bar any monies used for withdrawal:

theintercept.com/2020/07/02/hou…
A left-right anti-war coalition had emerged with people like @RoKhanna, @TulsiGabbard & @mattgaetz to try to allow withdrawal from Afghanistan (& some from Germany), but they were steamrolled by pro-war Dems led by Chairman Adam Smith & Liz Cheney:

theintercept.com/2020/07/09/how…

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9 Nov
Key detail in this @NYMag story on the pro-censorship movement inside NYT by its own employees: NYT tech reporters were angry that the anti-censorship posture of NYT editors would impede their campaign to pressure Silicon Valley to censor more robustly:

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The role that mainstream **journalists** have played, of all people, in taking the lead to demand that Silicon Valley oligarchs more aggressively control and censor the internet -- the greatest threat to a free and open internet after mass surveillance -- cannot be overstated.
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A really powerful & illuminating new 1-hour documentary “The Rise of Bolsonaro” — features Marielle’s assassination & battle of her widow, the coup against Dilma, @davidmirandario’s campaign for Congress, and much more. Can’t recommend it highly enough:

theriseofbolsonaro.com
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Very interesting @AOC interview in NYT today, where she says: "the history of the [Democratic] party tends to be that we get really excited about the grass roots to get elected. And then those communities are promptly abandoned right after an election."

nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/…
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greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inabi…
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